Country Music
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stoutfellowYou really couldn't call me a fan of country music. Most of my music collection lies somewhere in the spectrum from rock to pop; there's a sprinkling of jazz, blues, latin music, even a little calypso. But I do own (and listen to) a fair amount of country.
It's an eclectic collection, and there are a lot of big names - Johnny Cash, Willie Nelson, Reba, many others - who go unrepresented. Also, I know even less about the subgenres of country than I do about those of rock. I've heard, for instance, that some people class the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band as bluegrass, but what features place them there rather than elsewhere are a mystery to me. (A mystery which, for the moment, I'm not concerned with solving. That can wait.) What I'd like to ask any country fans out there is this: if I were to expand my collection further, who should I look for? Names are fine; specific albums are better.
The singers and groups I have that I'd class as straight-up country are: the Charlie Daniels Band; Crystal Gayle; Dolly Parton; Kenny Rogers; Leeann Womack; Mary Chapin Carpenter; the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band; Patsy Cline; Roxanne Cash; Shania Twain; Skeeter Davis; Suzy Bogguss; and Tammy Wynette. Then there are singers and groups at least some of whose work is country-tinged, including: Blood, Sweat and Tears; Bruce Hornsby; Creedence; Dan Fogelberg, maybe; the Doobie Brothers; Dusty Springfield; the Eagles; mid-period Elvis; Gordon Lightfoot; Jim Croce; Linda Ronstadt; and The Band.
So. What am I missing? Anybody?
It's an eclectic collection, and there are a lot of big names - Johnny Cash, Willie Nelson, Reba, many others - who go unrepresented. Also, I know even less about the subgenres of country than I do about those of rock. I've heard, for instance, that some people class the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band as bluegrass, but what features place them there rather than elsewhere are a mystery to me. (A mystery which, for the moment, I'm not concerned with solving. That can wait.) What I'd like to ask any country fans out there is this: if I were to expand my collection further, who should I look for? Names are fine; specific albums are better.
The singers and groups I have that I'd class as straight-up country are: the Charlie Daniels Band; Crystal Gayle; Dolly Parton; Kenny Rogers; Leeann Womack; Mary Chapin Carpenter; the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band; Patsy Cline; Roxanne Cash; Shania Twain; Skeeter Davis; Suzy Bogguss; and Tammy Wynette. Then there are singers and groups at least some of whose work is country-tinged, including: Blood, Sweat and Tears; Bruce Hornsby; Creedence; Dan Fogelberg, maybe; the Doobie Brothers; Dusty Springfield; the Eagles; mid-period Elvis; Gordon Lightfoot; Jim Croce; Linda Ronstadt; and The Band.
So. What am I missing? Anybody?
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Date: 2005-06-01 11:31 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-06-01 11:54 pm (UTC)My brief first husband (time-wise), along with being a college student and other things, was also a bass guitarist in a Southern rock band that played in local bars. The above song was one of their popular staples, along with anything Lynyrd Skynyrd, Marshall Tucker, ZZ Top - La Grange and Free Bird were great crowd pleasers. [I tell ya, it was truly fat-burning exercise on weekend nights. Maybe I should convince the Teflon Spouse to take up the ukelele (g). Nah, can't dance to that!]